I am hoping to pick up my 3 Hatebears this weekend. I am not 100% on what I want to replace though. My current options are 3 Harriers or 2 Aven Mindsensors/1 E. Tutur. ATM, I will be taking out my Harriers.
Placed 3rd for the second week in a row, was a good tourney. I had another D+T player for T4, although he was playing a Wg version of the deck.
First time to post here, do you guys think that the new sword warrants a spot in the board?
I'm still having doubts on SoLaS (over another jitte), so I would say no. I don't see many MUs where I would want it over another equip, and I really don't want to randomly draw into it.Originally Posted by mrjumbo03
I think SoLaS vs. SoBaM is a meta thing. SoLaS stops Swords and Path, two of the most commonly played removal spells. It also stops some less common black spells like Smother. The creature recursion is handy and the life can be handy vs. some decks. I'd prefer to keep the new sword in the SB.
I don't see the new sword being good, of at least being better than the old ones, but I might be wrong as I haven't tried it yet. However, IMO it can be a good meta call, against ug madness for example. I would only consider it if your meta is filled with those kind of decks.
Has anybody tried the Arbiter yet? In my testing it has been doing pretty well, eating removal like a champ. In some matchups, when it sticks under the Mother's embrace, it can be quite stellar. In some matchups (namely Merfolk) he doesn't do anything and gets swiftly sided out.
Yeah, it's not good in some matchups and will be something to side out in mono-color. In a lot of those cases, I think it'd be a good idea to bring in something like Wing Shards or Kitchen Finks against merfolk and goblins/whatnot. I've found Wing Shards in particular to be a good card, especially if you happen to have 4 mana open so you can StP to build up storm.
1 Jitte and 1 of each Sword is working well for me. But then again, almost everone in my meta plays a different deck (with the exception of the other D+T player).
any playtest news regarding the leonin arbiter?
So far it looks like she will be replacing my 3x Ethersworn Canonists in the sideboard. I really can't think of anything I would take out in the maindeck for it.
I'm just cutting Goldmeadow Harrier. I don't think it warrants removing the equipment toolbox. That was one suggestion I was given.
Are you running Moms then?
Yeah. 4x Mother of Runes is a most in my opinion.
How can you run both stoneforge mystic AND leonin arbiter? Isn't that really anti-synergistic?
Not really, especially if you can vial in the Mystic.
I'm testing Leonin in my GW build at the moment. He's good, but I still don't know how much. I need more testing.
You don't run fetches in your GW build? because if you do, you're not getting 100% efficiency from the arbiter...i'd say the mono-W gets about 90% because it still affects stoneforge but at least the deck doesn't run fetches...i'm all for MD-ing arbiter as well because it just randomly beats people due to not being able to fetch alone, or at least it eats a counter or a removal immediately... is it too much of a stretch to go up to 4 arbiters? they do stack unlike the long forgotten hate bear in its place before, the canonist...any thoughts?
It is insanely anti-synergistic. However, Mystic into Sword practically wins the Merfolk matchup by itself. It also greatly increases our chances against goblins. I believe that the Mystic toolbox is far too useful to remove.
That's what I was getting at. The strongest part of the deck (IMO) is the equipment toolbox, so I think the arbiters are the ones we need to get rid of. I hate putting anti-synergistic cards in a deck. I know there are those of us that would run dark confidant and tombstalker together, but I'm not one those people.
Except, HAL, that if you got an early Arbiter (or 2) lock on your opponent and prevent them from fixing their mana you should already be winning and Mystic becomes "win-more" rather than vital. You'll have plenty of time to draw into Jitte or SoFI while your opponent scrambles for basic lands. By that time you can even just pay the (2) to ignore the effect and go get your Jitte. And Tombstalker and Bob go fine in a deck together as long as you never flip Tombstalker over for Bob. ;)
Deadpool is friggen awesome.
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